Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world's highest peak, the chief of Nepal's mountaineering association said Tuesday.

The European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan (ECCT) will present the chamber's 2015 Low Carbon Initiative (LCI) publication tomorrow, which will seek to provide the nation with strategies from the ECCT's perspective to help Taiwan achieve the nation's CO2 emission reduction targets.

Environmental group Greenpeace said Monday it had suspended cooperation with paper giant Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) after an Indonesian farmer was allegedly beaten to death by guards linked to the company.

A butterfly being considered for federal protection is emblematic of the plight that pollinating insects face in part because farmers, enticed by ethanol mandates, are growing more herbicide-resistant crops, which has stripped millions of acres of crucial plant habitat.

Mexican authorities will use satellite tracking, drones, three naval bases and a fleet of small patrol boats to enforce a new gillnet fishing ban in the upper Sea of Cortes in a bid to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.